I like being a way station. Although the central cast remains relatively unchanged over long periods, people move in and out of my homes pretty regularly. Couchsurfers for a day or a week, friends of friends stopping in to relax and move on, new long-term housemates I have sometimes met the day I moved them in, friends stuck in the land of in- ( Read more... )

I mentioned in my last post that I can't abide feeling hobbled ( Read more... )

My politics are so deeply interwoven with my kinks they're inseparable. I think it's already pretty obvious from other writings how feminism and queer activism and such have tied in pretty directly.

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Sitting on the porch, smoking and writing while Chad is out with a friend. Just had an amusing mental image, while thinking about the ways in which I'm cooperative until pushed ( Read more... )

[this started out in one direction, and veered off in a completely different one. The title doesn't really fit, but I can't figure out what to change it to. Right now I'm not entirely sure what it says. *shrug* Have some stream of consciousness, y'all ( Read more... )

My Grandmother was a sociopath. At least, that's the language I grew up with, not sure what the DSM would label her now. It'd probably be complicated. She was brilliant, she was a master manipulator, she was abusive. When she was young she was very beautiful, and she used her brains and her sexual power to get what she wanted. She almost got us ( Read more... )

With all the talk about identity recently, somehow I missed one of the very central categories for me, although plenty of the characters I discussed fall into it in some way or another ( Read more... )

I'm about to do a bunch of toy reviews, so now seems like a good time to reshare this; I wrote it back in 2001 or so, I think? It doesn't include some of my earliest explorations, but it certainly explains a great deal about how central curiosity and exploration are in how I think about my sexuality ( Read more... )

The "writing prompts" I've emailed to myself are just getting out of hand and eating my inbox and my brain. Here, in no particular order, are those that fit in a non-filtered post, and a few thoughts or paragraphs about what I was thinking.

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This was triggered by a comment I made on my sexuality filter, but I think it's really relevant to how I interact with my social network overall, and deserves to be an open post as well. Additionally, I'm going to add to the bottom a good chunk (the less explicit bits) of how I navigate boundaries around sexuality-related communication ( Read more... )